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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 05, 2019, 04:46:30 pm »
got visa, leaving for london in ~15 minutes. our expected place to stay tonight fell through and i can't reach my gf now to confirm booking an airbnb so might have to leave for the airport without knowing my actual destination tomorrow, lol. heeeere we go.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 04, 2019, 10:34:27 am »
yeah it was fun. hadn't done that in literally years.

- tennis w/ dad x 45 mins
we were both starting to get the groove back a bit, had some really strong rallies. dad put some good zip on a few forehands and also mishit a bunch; overall big improvement over the past few times we've played.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: September 04, 2019, 10:30:37 am »
my thoughts are that dude's facial expression has me lol'ing in real life!

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 02, 2019, 03:26:26 pm »
- mow lawn x 45 mins

- run 9.0 km in 46:49
capped it a little short today because of the struggles on saturday.

- stretch

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: September 01, 2019, 10:48:25 am »
ended up with a moderate-to-bad headache most of yesterday afternoon and evening, post-run. legs felt wrecked for a while, too. pushed a bit too hard for what was supposed to be a light run, i think. and need to be drinking more water if i'm going to run in these conditions.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Triathlon sprint prep
« on: September 01, 2019, 10:08:25 am »
oh shit! damn looked it up, seems he's out now? or out soon?

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 31, 2019, 04:50:56 pm »
yeah, what can you do. props for being relatively uncorrupt, though. my gf's mom works in visa processing for the home department and knows the guy who runs the visa section for the US and canada, and she couldn't call in a favor or anything. oh well.

yesterday

- tennis w/gf x 40 mins
very low-key, she's a total beginner. but it was fun, she's a good athlete, picks things up quickly, and actually tries, which is cool.

today

- run 10.47 km in 57:04
took a 400m walking break after 9km because i felt like i was overheating. that brought the overall pace way down. hot and quite humid today.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Dreyth's New Journal
« on: August 30, 2019, 09:36:16 am »
if there's one thing i learned from three years in pakistan, it's that everyone gets sick during hajj.

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Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: The adarq.org farming skwad
« on: August 30, 2019, 09:35:46 am »
get you some ladybugs. they eat aphids. that's about all i know about natural insect pest management.

also, great advice. once gf and i have a place, if we've got outdoor space it sounds like hot peppers would be a cool thing to grow. good to know about scorpions' hardiness. if not, guess we'll have to find a community garden with a spot.

 :highfive:

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 30, 2019, 09:29:43 am »
also i'm stuck in 'merica for another week because the UK government, in its wisdom, decided to make the visa application process a gigantic and unpredictable pain in the ass. in its defense, all countries do that. on the other hand, fuck borders.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 30, 2019, 09:28:55 am »
wednesday

- run 8.03 km in 40:22
gave myself a 1.1km continuous uphill with 62m of elevation gain, by accident. pace dipped a little during that stretch, as you might expect.

- stretch

thursday

- tennis x 45 mins
gf came and played with me and my dad. she's a novice but a pretty quick learner and had fun. now wants to get a racquet and play when we're in the UK. dad has really struggled the last few times we've played. he used to be consistent if not very fast or powerful, but now he's a mess. xmas present idea: lesson package.

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 26, 2019, 06:07:21 pm »
that beach is beyond solid for me. it's got 30+ years of memories tied up in it. on friday morning we had a little ceremony to scatter some of my brother's ashes there. it was one of two places he requested that we do that, about a year before he actually died (the other being our parents' house).

back in maryland now.

- run 10.01 km in 53:01
first 4.5 km with gf, picked it up in the back half to get under 5:30 overall pace. she had the brilliant idea to drive down to the park nearby and then run along the creek, rather than just around the neighborhood. it's flat and so much less draining for her that she did an extra kilometer.

- stretch

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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: August 23, 2019, 12:45:34 pm »
my brother has a plot in a community garden near his place in connecticut. he brought down some of his hot peppers to the beach this week and we've been throwing them in different stuff, for example his gf made mango salsa with jalapeño yesterday that is good as hell. something my gf and i have been talking about doing in the UK. even if we don't have enough space in our place (likely), we could join a community garden. very good plan.


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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: August 23, 2019, 12:32:21 pm »
checking in from the beach. did a bit of running -- one decently long run (11-12 km) and some shorter ones -- in california last week, along with some hiking in big sur. at the beach been playing tennis every day and swimming. good stuff. it's beautiful here. watched a turtle nest hatch last night, 102 little loggerheads bursting out of the sand all at once and making a beeline for the ocean. absolutely incredible sight.

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Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: The Yard Work Thread
« on: August 23, 2019, 12:29:52 pm »
tight

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